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Statistical publications

The National Bank of Belgium issues statistical publications and press releases on a regular basis. All publications and press releases are available at least in Dutch and French. You may consult them online and download them (in PDF format) free of charge via this website.

General Statistics

The Statistical bulletin, with a mine of financial and economic information, is published on a quarterly basis. Statistics produced by the National Bank more frequently than every three months are compiled into a monthly update. The National Bank also allows you to have free access to a wider offer and longer series than in the Statistical Bulletin via “NBB.Stat” on its website.

At the end of each week, the National Bank releases an updated collection (the most recent past estimates and the latest available forecasts for the future) of the main Belgian economic and financial variables (gross domestic product and economic activity, prices, employment, public finance, foreign trade, interest rates and exchange rates).

National accounts

The annual national accounts are published in several stages. An initial estimate of the annual accounts, based on the quarterly accounts, is released at the end of February (provisional figures at t+60 days available on NBB.Stat only), followed by a revision at the end of April (publication at t+120 days available on NBB.Stat and in a PDF document). A first estimate for the general government accounts is also available around 20 April. The detailed accounts and the tables featuring data per branch of activity and per institutional sector, including a revised version for general government accounts, are released around 20 October (on NBB.Stat and in a PDF document), followed by the supply and use tables published at the end of the year. The annual accounts cycle is rounded off with the publication of the regional accounts at the beginning of the following year.

The quarterly accounts are released in three stages. A first flash estimate of economic growth is made 30 days after the end of the quarter. This figure is reviewed 60 days following the end of the quarter and put out on NBB.Stat together with detailed statistics on the composition of gross domestic product (value added, revenue, expenditure) and on the labour market. Statistics drawn from the quarterly accounts of the institutional sectors are issued between 105 days and 120 days after the end of the quarter. It is also 120 days after the quarter ends that the final, full estimate of the main economic aggregates is published.